About

Guillermo Amaral is a software engineer that likes challenges, podcasting, fast cars and coffee.

Currently working in Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB a Swedish software development company offering platform-independent software solutions via the Nokia Qt framework, the same framework used in the KDE project.

He got involved in the free/open-source software industry in 1999 after getting an invitation from a few software developers to help in a small project for the government in Mexico, he soon after founded a developer group where he could talk to other more experienced software developers. He got more involved with the open source community while working for private companies willing to modify open-source software to suit their needs.

Years later he joined the KDE project after years of promoting it and working on it for clients, he was welcomed with open harms by it’s great community, he knew he found a home and a new family. He has worked with the project both in promotions as well as in development, soon after he started his career as a public speaker talking about KDE and open-source software around Mexico and in multiple events around the world.

In 2009, he began getting involved with both the PC-BSD and FreeBSD projects, trying to join the BSD community to fulfill his goal of learning all there is to know about software development and what makes computers tick.

Never lend him your electronics, he usually voids warranties.